"Ok, driving [a] taxi is absolutely nuts!!" he wrote last week from the @hobo_nick account, just a few hours after announcing that he was working for a northern California cab company. "Crazy stories every night with drunken goons. Should I tweet about it? Or just keep this twitter for the next walk across America.”

"It's interesting, but some of you might see it as negative. Let me know what you think. I just made my twitter account for my walk across America and that's all I have ever tweeted. So not sure if taxi tweets would be annoying or rad?”

Initial response to the tweet was overwhelming. Within a few hours, Kleckner had created a second Twitter account, the aforementioned @Nick_Taxi.

"Looks like I'm going to be tweeting about the real life of a hobo taxi driver," he wrote. "This job gets crazy in the late night. Just be ready.